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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.94
কত দিনে মিশ্র পুত্রের হাতে খড়ি দিল ।
অল্প দিনে দ্বাদশ–ফলা অক্ষর শিখিল ॥ ৯৪ ॥
kata dine miśra putrera hāte khaḍi dila
alpa dine dvādaśa-phalā akṣara śikhila
After some days Jagannātha Miśra inaugurated the primary education of his son by performing the hāte khaḍi ceremony. Within a very few days the Lord learned all the letters and combinations of letters.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Jagannātha Miśra began his son’s primary education with the hāte khaḍi ceremony. Within a very few days, the Lord learned all the letters and combinations of letters.
Hāte khaḍi marks the beginning of primary education at four or five years of age. On an auspicious day called vidyārambha, Lord Viṣṇu is worshiped before instruction begins.
The teacher guides the child’s hand to write large letters on the floor with a long chalk pencil. Later the child uses a slate and learns the two-letter combinations called phalā.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Parental tenderness and play. Nimāi’s childhood alternates affection, mischief, and revelations.
The mood of Ādi 14 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
The chapter further describes how He displayed Himself as a naughty boy, how when His mother fainted He brought a coconut to her on His head, how He joked with girls of the same age on the banks of the Ganges, how He accepted worshipful paraphernalia from Śrīmatī Lakṣmīdevī, how He sat down in a garbage pit and instructed His mother in transcendental knowledge, how He left the pit on the order of His mother, and how He dealt with His father with full affection.”Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 14
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What do you appreciate about beginning education with worship and patient guidance?
Write the letters a, ā and i slowly, remembering how the teacher guides the beginner’s hand.
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